Geophysics, published by SEG since 1936, is an archival journal encompassing all aspects of research, exploration, and education in applied geophysics. Its articles, generally more than 175 per year in six issues, cover the entire spectrum of geophysical methods, including seismology, potential fields, electromagnetics, and borehole measurements. Geophysics, a bimonthly, provides theoretical and mathematical tools needed to reproduce depicted work, encouraging further development and research.

Geophysics papers, drawn from industry and academia, undergo a rigorous peer-review process to validate the described methods and conclusions and ensure the highest editorial and production quality. Geophysics editors strongly encourage the use of real data, including actual case histories to highlight current technology and tutorials to stimulate ideas. One or two issues per year feature a section of solicited papers on a particular subject of current interest. Recent special sections focused on seismic modeling, marine controlled-source electromagnetic methods, and seismic interometry.

Regular features include a section on intellectual property to announce patent information and a section that lists key papers from other earth science journals. A discussion section encourages free technical dialogue on previously published articles, and a photo/bio section features the contributors to each issue.

Subject Coverage
Amplitude variation with offset (AVO), anisotrophy borehole geophysics and rock properties, electrical and electromagnetic methods, engineering and environmental geophysics, geophysical software and algorithms, gravity exploration methods, ground-penetrating radar, interpretation methods, magnetic exploration methods, mining geophysics, poroelasticity, reservoir geophysics, seismic attributes and pattern recognition, seismic data acquisition, seismic inversion, seismic migration, seismic modeling and wave propagation, seismic velocity/statics, and signal processing.

ISI's Impact and Immediacy Data (2006)
Impact Factor: 1.228 Immediacy Index: 0.171